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Planetary Mine

by Martín Arboleda

A clarion call to rethink natural resource extraction beyond the extractive industries
A Planet to Win

by Kate Aronoff, Alyssa Battistoni, et al.

In the twenty-first century, all politics are climate politics

10 posts
The Case for the Green New Deal

by Ann Pettifor

What is the Green New Deal and how can we afford it?

11 posts
After Geoengineering

by Holly Jean Buck

What if the people seized the means of climate production?

7 posts

Our History Is the Future

by Nick Estes

How two centuries of Indigenous resistance created the movement proclaiming “Water is life”

17 posts
Extreme Cities

A cutting exploration of how cities drive climate change while being on the frontlines of the coming climate crisis

24 posts
Climate Leviathan

by Geoff Mann and Joel Wainwright

How climate change will affect our political theory—for better and worse

8 posts
The Progress of This Storm

by Andreas Malm

An attack on the idea that nature and society are impossible to distinguish from each other

10 posts

Verso 2017 Mixtape

by Verso Books

FREE ebook collection of extracts from our top books of 2017
How Did We Get into This Mess?

by George Monbiot

Where we have gone wrong, and what to do about it

22 posts
The Shock of the Anthropocene

by Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz

Dissecting the new theoretical buzzword of the “Anthropocene”

23 posts
Molecular Red

by McKenzie Wark

Radical new critical theory for the twenty-first century

64 posts

The Lamentations of Zeno

by Ilija Trojanow

A literary fiction about climate disaster and a scientist imploding on a journey to the Antarctic

15 posts
Fossil Capital

by Andreas Malm

How capitalism first promoted fossil fuels with the rise of steam power

39 posts
Capitalism in the Web of Life

by Jason W. Moore

“Moore’s radical and rigorous work is, and richly deserves to be, agenda-setting.” – China Miéville

28 posts
The Secret World of Oil

by Ken Silverstein

“An engaging journey through the sector’s murkiest crevices, shot through with ill-concealed disgust at the corruption at its heart.” —Financial Times

20 posts

The Earth

by Hubert Krivine

How mankind discovered the size, trajectory and age of the Earth

5 posts
The New Prophets of Capital

by Nicole Aschoff

A deft and caustic takedown of the new prophets of profit, from Bill Gates to Oprah

12 posts
The Oil Road

by James Marriott and Mika Minio-Paluello

A journey along a controversial European pipeline becomes a profound exploration of the oil economy.

13 posts
Carbon Democracy

by Timothy Mitchell

How oil undermines democracy, and our ability to address the environmental crisis

30 posts

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